emptying out
I wrote this thing about being Jewish and white and devastated by my community's response to the rise of Trump and his appointment of Bannon. I thought about...
public life
In the days before the election, I mentioned, I wrote a lot. I was very excited about the writing I was doing-- final edits on that John Green piece (still...
holes
I wrote a different Tinyletter-- I'll send it eventually, it's about reading tarot as a writing practice, it's fine-- in the days before the election. I was...
read me
Not that people ask all that often, but I typically don't give writing advice. This is because reading other people's freaks me right the fuck out: the fact...
past lives
In high school I had a hard time with food: your standard type-A white girl adventure in restricted eating. In college, though, I fell in love with it. It...
east
I remember very precisely when I realized I hated New York. I was seventeen and coming to the end of a summer program at Columbia, sitting outside at a...
braaaaains
That's an appropriately Halloween-y subject line, right? And it is relevant to what you're about to read, though that won't be evident immediately, because...
still
Me & Allison,1992 Me & Allison, 2016 and then just me, with a postscript
under pressure
You know every time I go to send one of these lately I'm like, fuck, fuck, don't fuck this one up, you have subscribers now. Not that I didn't always-- some,...
release
My book came out yesterday. I woke up and it was gray in Los Angeles, drizzly. I lazed around in bed watching TV for a while before getting up and going out,...
tidal
I graduated from college and moved back to Los Angeles. I moved into my childhood bedroom and started hanging out with my friends from high school at S.'s...
that link again
What I meant to say was: you can look at it here.
revelations
Here is a Los Angeles story for you: a few weeks ago I went to see a psychiatrist. His office is located on Hollywood Boulevard near where it disappears into...
where you'll find me now
It's been a while. You don't care where I have been, probably-- you don't really need more emails in your inbox, probably-- but I am going to tell you anyway...
self-surveillance
"When I went back to working in an office after years of not, I could suddenly see the particular brand of crazy my former compatriots in freelancing...
compulsions
A few weeks ago, I went to hear Ann Friedman in conversation with Charlotte Shane. Ann is, you might have gathered, a friend; I'd never met Charlotte before,...
controlled substances
Somewhat improbably, a prescription for .5 milligram Xanax pills costs about half of what the .25 milligram version will run you. I found this out in a...
and now I have a lettuce
Excerpt from an email I sent to my friend Logan on November 11, 2014: anyway the good news is that I had the best ever idea for a book the other day: a Blow...
what we keep
I moved back in with my parents at the tail end of December of 2012; I started drafting A SONG TO TAKE THE WORLD APART in late April of the following year....
writers are always
On a different night, after a different party, A and I were sitting on his back porch. It was morning already, somehow, maybe an hour after sunrise: bright,...